Love to a Monster Lyrics

Lyric discussion by isadore 

Cover art for Love to a Monster lyrics by Okkervil River

What I love about this song is that it takes on a completely different meaning if you pay attention to the first verse: "Lover, now that you've left me, I'm glad you're unlovely. Becuase if you could take all the heat in your heart and just hang it from you, I wouldn't be able to bear the way you cannot love me. It's much easier of me make a monster out of you."

I always thought this song was about how horrible an ex-partener was, but the first verse says very poetically how if she wasn't so angry when they broke up, he would see that there was truth in the things she was saying. But because things ended in a huge argument/fight, he'll ignore the things she said and think of her as a horrible monster.